hi all. i have written in about illegal page faults when i try to add records to a particular table -- editing it seems fine. well, i have narrowed down another "weird" problem with the same table. i reported that when i open it directly in datasheet view, the odbc driver fails every time. this is not my largest table at all -- this one is 14M and over 45k records -- my largest is 23M and over 90k records. i can open every other table up in datasheet view (msaccess97 by the way) except the 14M one. here is the log file after i opened a few other tables and then finally the one that bombs -- does anyone have any ideas about what is going wrong?? a few suspects -- the table has a field defined as varchar(300) and another varchar(550) -- i have the odbc driver set to cache 1000 (at least in this log file -- it was 100 and still bombed!), maxvarchar=550, maxlongvarchar=15000. but editing the table a record at a time -- or even pulling up a subset of records from the table works fine. . . thanks for any suggestions! jt